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The Unforgotten

Introducing ... The Unforgotten: Finding Dolores Wulff

The Unforgotten

Free Range Productions

Texas, True Crime, Journalism

4.6961 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

A mother vanishes. A boy grows up with questions. Forty years later, the answers begin with a single phone call: “We found your mom.”

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0:00.0

She said to me, Jan, I know he's going to kill me.

0:04.0

Promise me you'll take care of my boys.

0:07.3

In July 1979, in the small town of Woodland, California,

0:12.5

a mother named Dolores Wolf vanished from her family home.

0:17.6

From the very beginning, everyone around Dolores suspected her husband was responsible.

0:23.5

He goes at her, I'm going to kill you.

0:25.7

Well, I didn't think much of that.

0:27.7

I should have said right then and there, if she dies, you die.

0:32.9

Carl Wolf had brazenly threatened to kill his wife Dolores for years.

0:38.3

He said, I know a way to do it and not get caught.

0:42.3

Right away, I just said my dad did it.

0:44.3

I told us that our mother was gone and she was never coming back.

0:49.3

I called him up on the phone. I said, Wolf, you killed her.

0:53.3

You know it. I know what and everybody else knows phone. I said, Wolf, you killed her. You know it.

0:54.3

I know it and everybody else knows it.

0:56.8

For decades, Dolores' family lived in the shadow of her disappearance, searching, waiting,

1:04.5

never knowing exactly what happened.

1:07.1

There wasn't even a quiver of hope that she was still alive.

1:11.0

And so on we went with the search.

1:13.2

You know, the search that lasted 40 years.

1:16.0

Her loyal family was desperate for answers.

1:19.2

They refused to let her story be forgotten.

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